Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1930, Page 17

Washington News DRVER S NDIETED INDEATHOF NURSE INAUTO COLLISON Grand Jury Accuses George Levister of Recklessness in Accident. FOUR PURSE-SNATCHING CHARGES ARE LODGED National Training School Inmates Face Trial for Alleged Escapes. Crime Is Felony. e C. Levister, driver of the au. in which Miss Pauline R. ‘Thrailkill, a trained nurse, was killed on December 4, when it was in colli- sion with another machine, today was charged with manslaughter in an in- dictment report of the grand jury made to District Supreme Cour*, Justice Peyton Gordon in Criminal Division 1. The accident occurred at Tenth and | M streets ahd in testimony before a coroner’s jury Levister was charged by witnesses with having been driving in reckless manner. The driver of the other machine wxas exonerated. Purse Snatching Charged. Four charges of purse-snatching were contained in the report. Stanton D. White is accused of robbing Miss Hazel Van Landingham, 1201 Thirteenth street, of her purse, containing $34 and Jewelry estimated to be worth more than $1.000, during an automobile ride December 4 on Fourth street near Mich- igan avenue. James D. Flournoy, jr., colored, is in- dicted for two cases of purse snatching. He is said to have stolen up behind Mary A. Devlin on December 6 on Cen- ter street between Newton street and Meridian place and to have seized her rse. The second indictment charges t two nights before Flournoy had snatched a purse of Mrs. Mabel Ward- law, 2020 Ontario road, near her home. Frederick Pinkney, also colored, is charged with snatching the handbag of Mrs. Hattle P. Mitchell, 540 Eleventh street southeast, December 4. Mrs. Mitchell was walking near Ninth street and Virginia avenue southeast, when Pinkney is said to have thrown dirt into her face and to have snatched her bag. Four days later she met him on the street and caused his arrest. Robbery is charged in an indictment against John M. Boland, who is said to have taken $14 from Benjamin Gold- man at 801 Longfellow street December 1. He is said to have flourished a pistol. School Inmates Indicted. ‘Two more youthful inmates of the National Training School were indicted today by the grand jury for escaping from the institution, ' Under a new law passed last May, such escapes are made felonies and two boys were indicted under it last week. Harvie Pritchard, 19, and Central Norton, 16, are the accused in this week's report. Bmbezzlement is charged in an in- dictment against Robert H. Davis, for- mer manager of the John Bright Shoe Stores branch .at 937 Pennsylvania avenue. He is said to have appro- ted to his own use $544 of the company’s funds. The grand jurors exonerated Ed- ward 8. Ba n of a charge of homicide. He was driving an auto- mobile which struck and killed Irving Hall November 21 at Woodley road and Wi avenue. They also declined to indict John F. Desmond, destroying private property; William Powell, house- breaking; Jerry Key, robbery; Howard C. ‘Tippett, white slavery; John Mitchell, impersonating an officer; Roy Harris, forgery; Pasquale Errico, re- celving stolen property; Emanuel Perry, attempted rape; Everett Smith, Danlel Byrd and John Byrd, violating liquor law. and William P. McDonald. joy- riding and grand larceny. Others Indicted. Others indicted and the charges against them include: Alfred and Isa- bel Milarch. forging Government se- curity: Howard Coleman and Merritt Wilson, violating liquor law; Charles E. Brown, Charles Holden, Willam Keeler (2 cases), grand larceny; Rich- ard M. Smith, Cecil Diggs, Lawrence Diggs. Thomas Scanlon, Wilbur Crouch, housebreaking and larceny; Henry Trent, assault with dangerous weapon; ‘Theodore Prue, smoke screen; Arthur J. Hassett, Fred Allen and Stanley Hough, joyriding and grand larceny. CHOICE OF BUILDING “SITE IS POSTPONED Committee to Resume Considera- tion of Monumental War and Navy Home Next Saturday. ‘The Public Building Commission to- day postponed until 9:30 o'clock Satur- day morning the problem of selecting a site for the new monumental War and Navy Bullding. The commission had expected to take up this important fea- ture of the building program today, but all of the officials could not be present. It is expected that Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Secretary of War Hur- ley and Secretary of the Navy Adams will attend the meeting of the commis- sion Saturday. ‘Three localities have been under dis- cussion for some time as prospective sites. namely: A southwest location, on the south side of the Mall, between Second and Beventh streets, and from Maryland avenue and B street to Vir- ginia avenue and D' street a’ Mite west of the present State, War and Navy Bullding, and a site in the area between the Interior Department Building and the Naval Hospital ‘There have been indications recently that the southwest site is the one that at this time appears most likely to be chosen. There ha: en no decision on the question, however, and it is expected that all of the sites will be carefully considered before any conclusion is reached. FIREMAN HURTS FOOT Nail Pierces Flesh as He Fights Grocery Store Blaze. Fireman Joseph McGarry of Truck Company No. 7 ran a nail through his left foot this morning while working at a fire on the second floor of 1001 South Carolina avenue southeast, occu- pled by the Sanitary Grocery Co. The fire damaged the building to the extent of $200 and there was slight water dam- age to the store. McGarry was treated at Casualty Hospital Under Mental Observation. John Henry, 66 years old, of 305 E street, today was sent to Gallinger Hos- pital for mental observation when z:lil:e ‘were told he fired a pistol twice his house. Neither Henry nor other occupants of the house could offer po- lice an explanation as to what led to the shooting. . Without Credit Is Broke as Result. {Gave Needy Breakfast, Bed and Chance, and No Questions Asked. The rumors which have been bruited | about Washington of something ne- | farious in the unemployment apple “racket” had a dismal echo at 90414 | Eighth street this morning— very dis- | { mal echo. “Unemployed” men who stamped in | at dawn, out of the bitter weather, with | empty baskets, ready for 12 hours of | hard pavement pounding, found them- selves in the truest sense unemployed. | ‘There were no apples for any of the | 5 of them, no money, no credit. That | ‘apple racket,” at least, had collapsed. | Hungry Men Tighten Belts. Hungry men tightened their belts, | crowded the of) stove in the little office, | too cold, too tired, too whipped to go back on the street. The man to whom they had looked, | | the man who had staked them, was | broke, dead broke. | | “I'm sorry fellows,” he said, “it'’s a | tough break—totigh for you and tough | for me.” | Then he asked if anyone present could lend him a dime. There was & general search of pockets, and the dime was forthcoming—a nickel and five pennies, After that the organizer of the “apple racket,” J. B. Drew, whose men have dispensed 190,000 apples upon Wash- ington’s street corners in the past three weeks, went out and bought himself two of the biggest doughnuts he could find, washing them down with' black coffee. The other men—about 75 transients, float-rs, hoboes, tramps, but no bums— made such shift as they could; Drew, he admitted freely, was through. Can’t Run at a Loss. “Somebody.” he said, “has upset the apple cart—th-irs and mine. It's no use. I'm no philanthropist; I can't Tun on at a loss, even if I wanted to. I haven't got the money and I haven't got the credit. “We've sold 190,000 apples, the finest apples money could buy, and it gave those men a living. They had to work for it. The public got its money’s worth, but I haven't gotten mine. “Sixteen hours a day, I've been work- ing, from 4 am. on. Buying apples, paper bags, baskets, staking the men. For_three weeks I've dene it, and what do I have to show for it? “I'm exactly $105 poorer than I was when I started. I didn’t expect to make much, just a living; but this thing won't “UNEMPLOYED" TIGHTEN BELTS AS ONE APPLE “RACKET" FAILS Man Who Staked Fellows|[ he Fpening Star WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1930. CORONER T0 SIFT { J. B. DREW. —Star Staff Photo. g0. Now these men have got to shift for themselves. What can they do? “No one will credit them; they can't seem to make enough to stake them- selves and get on their own feet. “I've given a basket of apples to every man who promised to sell them and come back and pay me for what he sold, without asking him any questions. Made 25 Cents on 88 Apples. “But lately the men have been run- ning out on me. I'm a racketeer, they say, making a killing at their expense. I had expected, it's true, to make 25 cents on the box of 88 apples. “I have paid $2.50 a box, the men got from $1.50 to $1.75 profit the box on their sales. If they made no sales, I gave them $1 each so they could eat and get a bed. “The men paild only for the apples they sold, after they sold them. I took back what they had left over, throwing away every blemished apple at my own Toss. “There’s been coffee and doughnuts here every morning for the men who couldn't buy breakfast. Will Not Prosecute. “Yesterday F lost $25 worth of apples to men who took them and ran out on me. I'm not going to try to prosecute any of them—they probably needed the money badly. “Even the police say my men are working for a system. They give the other apple sellers the breaks on the best corners, on the corners we had first. “Now these 75 men, many are family men, will have to get back on the street. They can't get apples on credit in Washington. I seem to have been the only one who was ‘sap’ enough to credit them Meanwhile the apple selling went on unabated by the men who were buying their own apples from the commission merchants about Center Market. NEW INDICTHENT FACING SHAPRD Fihel!y Plans to Act Again| After Directed Verdict Frees Realty Man. Plans to present to the grand jury | again some 10 cases against Jacob Shapiro, local real estate dealer, charg- ing him with taking money under faise pretenses, were formulated . today by | John W. Fihelly, and assistant United States attorney. Shapiro was awarded a directed ver- dict of not guilty in District Supreme Court yesterday on the instructions of Associate Justice Peyton Gordon in a case in which he was charged with selling property to Mr. and Mrs, W. Cal- | houn Furr, without disclosing the ex- | istence of a “hidden trust” of $2,500. This action was taken after the judge upheld a defense contention that the indictment on which Shapiro was taken to trial was defective. Justice Gordon ruled the indictment was faulty because the transaction was not properly set forth in the “induce- ment” and due to the fact that it failed to show the alleged misrepresentations were intended to mislead the pur- chasers. Fihelly said it would be necessary to study the remaining indictments to learn whether they should be reframed. He said it would be necessary to present = cases to the grand jury once more | should the indictments fall to state ! the charge properly. ‘The cases against Shapiro, president | of the Jos°ph Shapiro Realty Co., | originally were taken before the grand Jjury as a result of an investigation into Washington real estate affairs by the | Blaine subcommittee of the Senate. VETERANS’ MEDICAL UNIT | UNDER INVESTIGATION | Operation of Bureau Which As- { signs Officers Subject of Protest 1 From Transferred Doctor. | By the Associated Press. Investigation of the machinery of the | Veterans' Bureau for assigning medical | officers was in progress today as a result | of charges brought by Dr. Malcolm Cannon, son of Bishop James Cannon, | jr., of the Methodist Eplscopal Church | South. Veterans Administrator Hines de- clined to make public details of the| charges, which came after Dr. Cannon | |had protested his proposed transfer | | from Charleston, W. Va., to Milwaukee. | Cannon contended the personnel divi- | !sion of the Veterans' Bureau is mis- managed and that officials in assigning men used a “lottery” system. ELE IO (R | OPPOSES EUGENE MEYER | | McFadden of House Attacks Mem- |.; ‘ ber of Reserve Board. Chairman McFadden of the House Banking Committee attacked in the | House today the nomination of Eugene Meyer_as chairman of the Federal Re- serve Board. ! “Meyer, whose name has been favor- | ably reported to the Senate, should not be confirmed,” said McFadden. “I can- | ! not_make that too plain.” { The Pennsylvania Representative con- tended Meyer would involve the PFed- eral Reserve system in international finance. Births Reported. Ty H. Lamb, Della_ B, Hickey, boy. | shout 5 flights two years ago when it established a record of BUSH DEATH TRIAL OPENED BY COLLINS Prosecution to Ask Death Penalty for Carnell and Ma- <honey, He Intimates. After selection of & jury was com- pleted in District Supreme Court today, the prosecution demanded the death penalty for Willlam J. Carnell and Frank Mahoney, charged jointly with the murder of Louis Bush, motor bus magnate, in the garage of his home, 3534 Fulton street, October 6, last. Willam H. Collins, assistant United States attorney, closed his opening statement by declaring: “If we prove the foregoing facts, and I am satisfied we will, we will ask the jury to bring in a verdict of guilty as charged in the indictment.” Accused Listen Closely. As the law provides execution for persons convicted on first degree murder indictments in the District, the prosecutor’s statement was tantamount to & request for the death penalty. The neatly dressed young defendants sat beside their attorneys as Collins outlined his case. Refraining from talking, even in whispers, they listened closely as Collins unfolded his version of the slaying. The prosecutor said he would prove the pistol with which Bush was shot had been obtained from Charles H. Founce of 1243 B street southeast the Saturday before the slaying. He said Mahoney and William C. McKay, who may be tried separately in the case, | paid the loan for which Founce had been holding the weapon for security in order to regain its possession. Sister-in-law Testifies. The Government will also prove, Col- lins said, that Mohoney and Carnell left Washington soon after the slaying for the West aboard a bus. He said Ma- honey was captured in Pittsburgh and Carnell in East Liberty, Ps Mrs. Norman Luchs, sister-in-law of Bush, the first witness, testified she had heard faint noises emanating from the garage which sounded like the backfire of an automobile. She said she looked outside .nd heard Bush L “I'm snat.;{ o Ing a recess Mahoney approached william L. Bush, son of the Toan slain, and expressed sympathy. Bush ac- cepted. the condolences, “QUESTION MARK” HERE Refueling Plane Is En Route to Its Home Station. The famous Army tri-motored trans- port plane Question Mark, which start- ed the epidemic of refueling endurance 150 hours of " continuous flight, was a visitor to the Natlonal Capltal today. e plane was flown here from New York yesterday afternoon en route to t§ home station at Maxwell Meld, Montgomery, Ala. Capt. Donald P. Muse is the pilot YOUNG MEN’S CLUB DINES! # Special Dispatch to The Star. SANDY SPRING, Md., December 16. —About 54 members and guests of the Young Men’s Club of Olney, Md., held their annual banquet at the Common- wealth Farm near Colesville, Md, Ed- ward Snowden acted as toastmaster and the speakers included Dr. Jacob W. Bird of Sandy Spring, Barnard Welsh of Rockville, Dean Acheson of Washington, Mr. Lutes of Silver Spring E. J. Murphey of Chevy Chase, . ‘g:reu n{c{nh year of a $5 gold piece is a part of the proceedings. Herbert Dailey of Brookeville, Md., F. and Mary O. inscoe. boy. et Bt £ K e . William and "Luctle ¥ Edyprds, boy. perfect attendance was this ye-- the man having tendance at the club meets ings and received the gold plece. SLAYING OF YEGGS IN STREET BATTLE Second Robber Dies Without Coherent Statement—Rec- ord Being Traced. OPERATIONS IN DISTRICT UNDER INVESTIGATION Pair Caught in Act of Breaking Into Store by Police—Inquest Is to Begin Tomorrow. Pollowing the death in Preedmen's Hospital last midnight of Walter Moran, 59-year-old yeggman, whose companion was killed outright by police bullets late Sunday, a coroner's jury will open an inquiry ‘tomorrow morning into the cir- cumstances of the shooting which oc- curred at Fourteenth and U streets when the pair was surprised attempt- ing to break into a grocery. Moran, hit in the neck and chest, died before police could get a coherant statement from him. Both he and the other man, James Powers, 69 years old, had been convicted in various parts of the country during the past 30 years on offenses ranging from vagrancy to safe blowing. ‘The two No. 8 police precinct privates who did the shooting, T. C. Lewis and I. L. Murphy, are being detained at their precinct pending the inquest. Other Crimes Sought. Moran denied having ever seen Pow- ers efore up to a few hours prior to the time they set about to blow the safe in a grocery at 1935-1937 Four- teenth street. Police believe, however, that the pair had been operating to- gether in the District for some time past, & supposition which the injured man denied. After the inquest, their bodies will be held at the morgue for a reason- able length of time to allow possible | relatives to claim them. If not identi- lfl’:dldlhey will be consigned to Potter’s eld. 2 Timothy McDonald, colored, noticed the men trying to force the rear door of the grocery with a pick. He called the police station and then saw Lewis alighting from a street car nearby. Gun Battle Is Fatal. McDonald told Lewls what was go on and the officer hurried to the rear of the grocery. He swung open a gate near the door and ordered the men to surrender. Powers shot twice at Lewis, but missed in his haste to escape. Moran rushed the officer and swung on him with the pick, a moment before Lewis shot him twice. Meanwhile, Murphy had driven up to the mouth of the aliey in a police car. He saw Powers run out brandishing a revolver, and followed him in the auto- mobile. Dashing along the sidewalk, Powers refused to halt and Murphy, alexiplnz from the machine, shot him e A hottle of nitroglycerin was found on Powers. Both men had loaded guns and a complete set of eracksman tools Iay near the grocery door. SUSPECT IS TAKEN IN HIT-RUN CASE Taxicab Operators Make Capture After Witnessing Accident in Which Man Was Hurt. Alleged to have been the driver of a hit-and-run auto which struck down a visitor to the Capital late yesterday afternoon, Samuel Roy, colored, 21 years old, of Falls Church, Va., was cap- | tured by two taxicab drivers in a short chase and turned over to police. The hackers, Lester S. Jones of Hyattsville and Myer Rodis of 1412 K street southwest, chased Roy three blocks down Pennsylvania avenue after witnessing an accident at Twenty- eighth street and the Avenue, in which Emory Baker, 59, of Carlisle, Pa., re- ceived a sprained ankle. The two cabs collided in forcing Roy to the curb at Twenty-fifth street, but escaped with minor " damage. Police charged Roy with leaving the scene of an accident and operating a car with brakes. Baker was given treatment at Emergency Hospitdl, Army physicians at Walter Reed Hos- pital treated Thomas Crawford, 19 years old, of 419 Van Buren avenue, River- dale, Md., late yesterday after he was felled in the 7100 block of Alaska avenue by & car driven by Trueman E. Palmer, 26, of 1301 Fifteenth street. Crawford Wwas bruised on the head and left leg. . STREET CAR COMPANIES ARE SUED FOR $50,500 Damages of $20,500 and $30,000 Asked of Capital Traction and W. R. & E. Railways. Two traction companies were named as refendants in suits for damages to- taling $50,000, filed today in the Dis- trict Supreme Court. Esta R. Orame of the Chastleton Apartments and Myree M. Berry of Rockingham County, Va., are plaintiffs in suits against the Capi Traction Co. for $20,500. They said they were injured September 6, when their automobile was crushed between two cars of the company, going in opposite directions on Fourteenth street near Church street. Attorney Joseph L. Low repre- sents both plaintiffs. Declaring that a street car of the Washington Rallway & Electric Co. passed a red stop light at Tenth and G streets and crashed into an automo- bile in which they were riding, Frank E. Brady and his wife, Elizabeth, 865 Van Buren street, have filed suits against the company totaling $30,000 damages. The accident occurred seg; tember 16. Attorneys Julian G. Gibl and James A. Davis appear for Mr. SUPPORTS WAGNER BILLS Women’s Democratic Club to Urge Their Enactment. The Woman’s National Democratic Club has gone on record in favor of the so-called Wagner unemployment bills and will urge their enactment. The club also voted in favor of Sen- at bill 4148, to provide for the discon- tinuance of the use as dwellings of mum:rmmmm.nmmmm- trict Columbia and for the replat- ting and development of squares con- hlnl.lg inhabited alleys in the interest :f.gu ic health, comfort, morals, safety welfare. ‘This setter dog, recently deprived of her Park were threatened with starvation because their mother ignored them. PLANNERS 10 GET POPULATION TREND Director Charles W. Eliot, 2d, to Outline Movement in Capital Area. A picture of the population move- ment in the National Capital area will be laid before the National Capital Park and Planning Commission at its meet- ing on Friday and Saturday by Charles ‘W. Eliot, 2d, its director of planning. The commission is anxious to secure first hand information on the popula- tion trend here as a valuable guide post in its city planning. The proposal of making a radical de- parture from its method of conducting meetings will be considered by the com- mission when it takes up the advisa- bility of the whole commission taking trips around the District of Columbia and its environs in order to obtain an intimate picture of developments going forward. Heretofore, since its creation, the commission has held its meetings in closed sessions at the Navy Depart- ment Ruilding, delegating the work of using Washington as a city planning | laboratory to committees of its members. Will Act on Recreation. Final action is expected to be taken on the recreation report, compiled by C. L. Wirth, landscape architect of the commission. Each of the commis- sion members, since the last meeting, has had the o%ponunlty of studying this report, which deals with a compre- hensive development of parks and playgrounds in the District of Columbia. The question of administration, which | is considered a vital one, is dealt with in the report. Officials invited atten tion today to the point that the pla; grounds here are now administered by the District of Columbia and the ad- visability of having a new arrange- ment is being considered. ‘The legislative program, in which the commission is intensely interested, will be discussed with a prominent place given to the bill proposing that the District Commissioners be given au- thority to close streets in the city and the legislation designed to eliminate alley dwellings in the National Capital. At present Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., the Commission’s engineer, explained today, 1t is necessary to get a bill through Congress in order to close a street in the city. The ed legislation, he said, is aimed at relieving Congress of a mass of detail from this source and would likewise expedite city planning. John Thider, housing expert of Pitts- burgh, Pa., recently completed a study for the commission of the alley dwelling situation here. - | Proposed highway changes in the Dis- trict will ‘be latd before the committee by Maj. John C. Gotwals, Engineer Commissioner -of the District, who is likewise a planning commissioner, Will' Consider Markers. W. T. Partridge, consulting architect, has prepared new studies for placing markers at the entrances to the Dis- trict. These plans will be discussed by the commission, and Mr. Eliot will ex- plain studies that he has made on the subject. Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, on be- half of the Garden Clubs of America, brought this matter to the attention of the commission in an attempt to push this beautification plan, so that it may be accomplished when the George Wash- ington Bicentennial Celebration opens here in 1932. Maj. Gotwals will invite the commis- sion’s attention to the newest develop- ment relating to the municipal center. deric A. Delano, the commission’s chairman, will give his views on the proposed Avenue of the States, which would transform the present East Capi- tol street into a magnificent thorough- fare, lined with structures erected by several States. Studies just completed by the com- mission’s staft with reference to pro- posed pltyground facilities in the north- ern area of Cleveland Park will be sub- mitted to the commission by Mr. Wirth and H. W. Morsell, land-purchasing ex- perts for the commission. WOOD FOR D. C. NEEDY HAULED BY TEN TRUCKS Kindling to Be Distributed by Sal- vation Army Through Four Local Offices. Ten Army trucks from the Quarter- master Motor Center are engaged this afternoon in hauling the kindling wood donated by the United States Marine Corps at w to the welfare branch of the District government for distribution to the poor of the District. The kindling was landed at the Occo- quan Wharf, on Water street southwest, and was loaded on the trucks by ct prisoners and carried to the following distributing points: 1075 Jefferson street, 1501 Seventh street, Eighth and I streets and Thirteenth and K streets southeast. The distribution to those in need will be in charge of the officers of the Sal- vation Army. ROBBERY NETS $3,000 Diamond Ring and Valuables Are Stolen From 31st Street Residence. A diamond ring and other articles valued at tely $3,000 were stolen from home of Ross D. RIGht, acoording to & police report, Bor a 8 pol . Po- lice said entrance was nm?o through & second floor bath room window. SETTER ADOPTS THREE LION ps, came o the rescue — Ignored by Mother, Lion Cubs Adopted By Blooded Setter Mrs. Leo Refuses to Feed Her Three Babies, So Bereaved Dog Gets Them. A small setter dog at the National Zoological Park has acce] the charge of mothering lion cubs, ee furry, still- blind creatures, which at first appeared to have been born to starvation use their mother ignored them. Head Keeper W. H. Blackburn was faced with a real lem when the triplets arrived ‘Their mother stalked about the cage, too qud, ap- parently, to notice her offspring. As time passed it became apparent that the newcomers were not obtaining sufficient nourishment, something which the lioness could not be induced to remedy. ‘Then Blackburn thought of the dog, a well bred setter, which had just lost her pups. He brought the ill-assorted animals together, and was much re- lieved to see the reaction. ‘The dog adopted the cubs as readily as if they had been her own, feeding them regularly and giving them their baths. Now, while the cubs roll about on the floor of Head Keeper Blackburn's office at the Lion House, the dog watches them with a maternal solici- tude astonishing all beholders. It is planned to wean them from their foster mother before they become large enough to injure the setter. FOUR TO FACE COURT IN CAB ROBBERY CASE Three Charges Placed Against Man, Two Against Two Others and One Held as Witness. Arraignment of two men and two women arrested in a raid on their apartment at 1301 Belmont street early Friday after two youths reported they had been held up there, was set for Police Court today. The defendants are Edward E. Bunch, 26 years old, who police say is also known as Barton; Tillie Butler, alias Betty Barton, 36; Prank L. Barham, 38, and Kathryne Haddleston, 19. ‘Three robbery charges were lodged against Bunch at the eighth precinct last night when police finished an in- vestigation into their activities, while the Butler woman and Barham were held on two robbery counts. Miss Had- dleston was booked as & Government witness. Police_declared they had connected Bunch, Barham and the Butler woman with several recent taxicab hold-ups, among them the robberies of Willlam Lane, 1124 Pifth street; W. J. Mitcbell, Bladensburg, Md., and Sherman Wiley, 2902 Porter street. ‘They were also with robbery as a result of a hold-up in which Elmer J. Ross, 310 Buchanan street, and Floyd E. Ryan, 3613 Eleventh street, told de- tectives they were lured to the apart- ment by the Butler woman and robbed of personal effects by the two men. PASSION PLAY LECTURE HEADS ENTERTAINMENT Etchison to Give Illustrated Talk at Benefit for Bible Class As- sociation Tonight. An_{llustrated lecture on the “Pas- sion Play” of Oberammergau by McK. Etchison, religious work director of the ¥, M. C. A, will be the high- light of & program of entertainment for the benefit of the Organized Bible Class Association tonight at 8 o'clock in Woodward Hall of Calvary Baptist Church. Others who have contributed their services for the program include H. A. Martin, H. G. Leaf, Harold Moore and T. N. Leef, eompg!ilil %\: Parthenon Quartet; Raymond E. Rapp, accom- panist of the quartet; the Ninth Street Christian Church Orchestra, John M. Richards, soprano; Etchison, accompanist, the Vaughn class. ‘Proceeds of the evening will be used to expand the work of the Organized Bible Class Association. TREASURY COLLECTS $122,989,450 ON DEBTS England Tops Interest List, With France, Poland, Belgium and Italy Next in Order. Eleven foreign governments paid into the Treasury rtment. yesterday a total of $122,989,450 on their indebted- ness to this country, Of the total, $30,854,0562 was in pay- ment of principal and $92,135,398 for interest. All payments were in cash. Interest payments received were from lum, $1,625,000; Estonia, $150,000; and, $129,885; France, $19,325,000; Great Britain, $66,390,000; Hi 3 804; Italy, $1,260,625; Latvia, $50,- Lithuana, $93,528, and PBoland, $3,082,555. ‘Those making payments on the prin- cipal included Czechoslovakia, $1,500,- 000; Finland, $55,000; Great Britain, $28,000,000; Hungery, $11,755, and Po- $28, 000; | land, 81,287,207, CUBS when new-born Hons at the National Zoological —Star Staff Photo. DRY LAW GRITICS SCORED BY LEAGUE Officers Named and General Policy Stated by District Anti-Saloon Body. Firing & broadside attack on eritics of the prohibition law and reaffirming “‘our unswerving adherence to the eight- eenth amendment and the Volstead and other enforcing acts,” the Anti-Saloon League of the District of Columbia, in its annual meeting at Grace Reformed Church, elected officers for the year and 1aid down a general statement of policy. David A. Hart, assistant United States attorney, in an address explain- i&( the activities of his office enf lain, Rev. C. H. Butler. Adopt 19 Resolutions. and civic or- ited at the by the ting. The list of 19 resolutions unanimously g.e body was presented by . Butler. These resolutions, in part, . were .as follows: “We reaffirm our unswerving adher- ence to the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead and other enforcing acts. We restate our belief in the ?g.finnnl pml&b&uon as l.l;ebhr;:y and by the“ increased n&ml;er of e_owners, savings accounts, in- lunne? policies, school attendance and general benefits to the le. “To the honest man the economic and moral results of this are outstanding, despite wi Thostility to its enforcement and much sttendant corruption. “The chief argument of those who opposed prohibition is taht it is not and cannot be enforced, and at the same time these opponents unfairly and un- patriotically are doing all within their power to prevent orcement. General Welfare Aided. “During the more than 10 years of national prohibition it has become in- creasingly int that the total pro- hibition of the beverage liquor trafic h'u n:one more for the enlf wel(}u of the people than any form of regula- tion or partial prohibition ever tried in the United States or elsewhere. ““We call upon all good citizens faith- fully to observe and so far as possible assist in the enforcement of the pro- hibition laws ‘‘We assert that the charge so fre- quently published or declared that crime has increased under prohibition and that prohibition is responsible therefor is false. : “Prohibition is effective in the Dis- trict of Columbia. There s no open flagrant sale of liquors and but little drunkennass may be seen on the streets, Page | Nevertheless, we are conscious of the fact that the law is being violated by & certain class of men and women. “With all law-abiding citizens, we demand the strictest enforcement of the "Etohlhluon laws in this, District. To that end we call upon the consti- tuted authorities, both national and local, to give their best endeavors. Citizens’ Co-operation Asked. “We therefore call upon all in au- thority, whose duty it is, to enforce the law without fear or favor. We call upon all citizens to uphold the hands of au- thority, that it may be known by all that the people of the District are law- { |abiding and demand and expect that the laws be enforced against the out- lawed traffic. “While it is the established policy of the League not to en in the detection of violations of the law, leav- ing such work to the properly consti- tuted authorities, it hereby renews its pledge to co-operate with the officers of the law, and national, in main- taining the prohibition laws in their int to the end that the test pom’l:’benem may be derived | of g:sl’mm z ‘‘We disapprove of the proj popular referendum on the el'h(cenmu;n amendment. “We remind our public school au- thorities mldnrb"c school teachers of their duty privilege of faithful in- struction in all the des regardi the injurious effects alcohol and al others forms of narcotics .upon the human body. “We renew our demand that all members of the Mef litan police force be given lu% enforce the mfim laws, to that of agents. We indorse the Howell bill an enforcement code for the L ence of of SRR e press, comms ‘as| that their rupmrt‘ypi'a the hibitlon laws as do to other laws, which are ou in favor of e PAGE B-—1 IMMUNITY 1SSUE RESULTS IN DELAY INREALTY INQUIRY Clarke Waives for Himself, but Cannot Act for Com- pany, He Avers. LEGALITY OF RECORDS BEING INVESTIGATED Questioners Face Blank Wall Until Majority Stockholders Sign Waiver, N. B. Clarke, official of Country Club Properties Co., Inc., which is being in- vestigated by the Blaine Subcommittee of the Senate, signed a waiver of im« munity when he took the stand to testify at today's hearing, but the ses- slon was quickly ended when he sald he did not have power to waive im- r:oumty for other “::oehkl'wl.;iem h:ll the mpany as requf the chairman of tm investigating bfi} Senator Blaine then ruled that Clarke, principal promoter of the company which has been e in selling lots in a suburban of Montgomery County under & system of giving free lunches and free lectures on psy to invited guests, should not be h until other officers authorize Clarke to Wwalve immunity from possible prosecu- tion. Clarke protested that he had waived n‘mm‘ u}:ll!.y for Mmuml( d:‘ml th:t h:n;l': 101 ave power 8o for stockholders, but Senator Blaine held that Clarke's testimony would be use- {:: wut'r‘na cun;nl't"lze concerned with ac es of e company, unless the other officials also waived immunity. Leo A. Rover, United States attorney for the District, now is having sn audit made of books and records of the company, obtained recently under sub- poena, to determine if there has been any violation of laws of the District. Clarke, and only witness called this morning, readily signed a waiver of immunity for himself, but this was torn up by Chairman Blaine when the Was recessed after Clarke sald he could not waive im- munity for other officers of the concern. He was warned by b“vocnln ‘-t’i.w’ t h:h‘ mi fi used against fim later, in po-tan fore pany. had put ::' oy 'i::: O mone; the fa authority from waive immunity for the company as a testimony, as had a_ number of rlninlnh who were heard at the "Senator Biai A ne ruled against this, un- less Clarke obtained the waivers of im-. munity from other kholders and the wmplnz itself, declaring “I do not want this committee to be made & vehicle for the continuing of your op~ *TBlaree sgain arke again protested that he coul produce “witness for witness” for flwfi who have complained the ac- tivities of members of organization luce docu- mentary evidence to “ name" of his organization, 54 £ “You can clear your name when m authority to waive immunity on rolmmnnflmo‘&em- pany,” Senator Blaine ded. Senator Carey of Wyoming, asked by the chairman for an’ opinion on this matter, said he felt Clarke should be given an opportunity to testity, but he supported the ruling by Senator Blaine that Clarke first should get waivers of immunity from other officers of the company. MAKES STUDY OF ERRORS Tests Being Held to Ascertain Kinds of Typists’ Mistakes. Tests to determine the kinds of er- rors made by stenographers and typ- ists and to check the reliability of va- rious testing methods themselves are being conducted at Business High School this week by Dr. L. J. O'Rourke, director of personnel research, U, 8. Civil Service Commission. The tests of the work of the school's student stenographers and typists were begun vesterday and will continue daily through Priday. Dr. O'Rourke, who is making the tests in a general research, will use the results he obtains in con- neetion with civil service examinations, and = volunteered to ance, law enforcement and good citizen~ ship. Laud Police and Prosecutors. “We commend the Police Department and the district attorney’s office for leldlnux un:m efle'f:v:o;ork' 31! detecting an I of hibi- tion fl‘fi' 4 . e “While we commend the police force for its zeal in ing to justice those who violate the prohibition laws, we are mindful of the number of policemen who during the year have been chary with euc?l: ense of intoxication, {ge connection we express our deliberate Jjudgment that policemen should re- frain from the use of intoxicating liquors entirely whether on or off duty in the interest of the best possible serv~ ice to the city. 17. “We note with pleasure the con- tinued progress of the Woman's Chris- tian Temperanee Union of the District Columbia.” John R. Mahoney, one of the early workers in the tem